Spy¹
Goodbye to Language 3D²
Magic Mike XXL³
The Tribe⁴
Roar⁵
Hot Pursuit⁶
Maps to the Stars⁷
Dope⁸
The Last Rescue⁹
Jauja¹⁰
¹ This is the most Almodóvarian Hollywood movie I've seen since ever, and in my imaginary Chill Earth this was a big deal
² Saw this in January and I simply hope each year of my life begins in such a way
³ Why am I explaining this stuff? It must be because I need friends in this world. The riches of Magic Mike XXL are manifest and manifold and man
⁴ Uses all these wonderful realistic cinematic textures to create an experiential fantasy landscape for deaf people \m/
⁵ This is important to the world and the world needs Drafthouse: science
⁶ Saw this as a hop with Furious 7 and that's called "living the dream"
⁷ Cronenberg's Body Horror as Emotion Horror and Bruce Wagner gets the bad feelings good
⁸ My memories of this movie remind me of my teenage memories
⁹+¹⁰ Well I just got to see them to figure things out
And I'm forgetting some
and I encourage people to bond together over Mad Max.
Bitter Lake by Adam Curtis (the ODB of editing and sound design with the political chops of P.E)
The Falling by Carol Morley (the Nicki Minaj of this film shiiiiiiiiiiiit)
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely by Jospehine Decker (the child of Lynch, Campion and Malick)
Alright music promo by Kendrick Lamar/Colin Tilley & The Little Homies (the golden age of promos is upon us)
Sorry jenks, I can't write a summary right now, but I just wanna say in the spirit of 2015: PLEASE SEE, SUPPORT AND BOND OVER THESE MOVIES!!!!!!!!!!! And yes, Mad Max still needs to be re-visited and loved up and bonded over.
Let's celebrate movies!
:) and by accident we might celebrate each other
made this topic to remind myself about 2015 movies, then so like while emptying out my memory bank and whatnot, i left out
Tangerine, which is, there we go, an example of a list blunder and the most recent movie i've seen. point is:
Tangerineglad you mentioned Lamar and here's the short I was previously inches from mentioning:
mad max: fury road
carol/the duke of burgundy
the lobster
phoenix
inside out
what we do in the shadows
the hateful eight
blackhat
creed/magic mike xxl
bridge of spies
Phoenix
The Jinx
45 Years
The Lobster
Carol
Bridge of Spies
Blind
While We're Young
Inside Out
Mistress America
Chronic
James White
The Smell of Us
Blackhat
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting On Existence
i've seen very few movies these past few years. so far, Dior & I is the only one that i've loved this year, but officially that's a 2014 release.
i loved Far From The Madding Crowd.
i enjoyed mad max when i saw it, urged everyone to see it, but forgot about it very little afterwards.
i am very excited about Love and The Hateful 8.
MAD MAX
HARD TO BE A GOD
and THE WITCH, but that just got moved to next year so it doesn't really count anymore.
Merged.
having perhaps the most "normal person movie year" i've had in a stretch. i don't expect to attend any festival and at the year's end what movies i'll call my favorite will be from a small pool of like thirty or so movies from the year.
today's event was sponsored by Ghostboy, who was special thanked in one and extra special thanked in another
i saw The Diary of a Teenage Girl
and i saw Digging for Fire
oh i still love movies, absolutely. took me one trip back to theater and two recent movies
The Diary of a Teenage Girl in particular overlaps with many of my recent creative interests to almost an absurd degree. i'd be worried if i wasn't delighted. cinema woven around a sassy teenage character, here's how it looks. it looks fucking wonderful. Bel Powley owns the movie, she owns it hard, and i want to like send thank you cards to the entire cast and crew for how they portrayed life's textures.
Digging for Fire, shot on 35mm, has maybe the best camera and music work in any of Swanberg's movies. not sure because who remembers his movies well? so during this one I fell asleep, by accident, not sure for how long but between Rosemarie DeWitt hanging with her parents and Orlando Bloom in a bathroom with Anna Kendrick stitching his face. it is like a Swanberg movie, but it is better, i think. the theme of this movie makes me less worried about the world. Jude Swanberg is back in action and i for one am looking forward to the development of Jude as a person. tickled about his development, i'd say. there are so many bigname actors it's tricky not to envy Swanberg, who brings in the bignames to play normal people in realistic lives. talking about the characters would be talking about the movie.
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^this movie is about penis and emotional comfort. Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman both wear fake penises and dance around with them. It's a crucial and pivotal plot device. my friend said he'd give the movie a 3/10 but also said he thinks ten years from now this movie will remembered as the days of fake penises. watching this movie won't make you like movies more, it'll make you think life is weird and why'd this movie get made. Mildly recommended for such reason.
it was ridiculous when before yesterday i hadn't yet watched Bujalski's Results.
the accruing dramatics of Results i find highly impressive. Bujalski continues to do things that only Bujalski does. notice here how i don't compare him with another artist that i'd guess you already like in order to seduce you into liking this movie as much as i did. jk i'll do that now: Results builds its narrative complexity parallel to its imperfect characters in a Todd Solondz way. there were perhaps deliberate references to the Solondz atmosphere.
except Bujalski isn't as weird as Solondz and his characters aren't either. and i think Results feels like bullshit some times, which is different than how Bujalski's movies are known to feel. sometimes there's bad acting/direction, especially at the beginning, when i was being hard on the movie, and when there was that fucking awful sequence about how Kevin Corrigan is a depressed newly rich person who can't figure out to eat pizza with other people. **attention all creative people** there's not a depressed person on the entire fucking planet who wants to see on screen what it feels like to feel depressed, so please stop that or if you don't whatever, our depression is autonomous, but you keep fucking up your shit.
after that Corrigan explains to Cobie Smulders what we watched and i liked the movie better. in terms of things Bujalski does that other people don't do, the character Smulders plays is well-crafted and dazzling displays the power of a young female. she owns a table at one point, then next they go eat and she owns another table over a check dispute. but also her flaws are perspective in a crisp way.
plus i haven't even mentioned how wonderful Guy Pierce is with his Australian accent. five times i thought about how i wanted to marry him and make my life better. his character represents that within the movie.
plus other things i forgot to mention and better explanations of things i did. Results helped me remember why i like movies.
Some of these are actually 2014 but I saw them in 2015...
maps to the stars
locke
foxcatcher
spongebob squarepants movie 2
force majeure
the babadook
hard to be a god
inherent vice
a most violent year
mr. turner
going clear
the jinx
a girl walks home alone at night
jauja
Sight & Sound Top 20 Films Of 2015
1. The Assassin
2. Carol
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Arabian Nights
5. Cemetery Of Splendour
6. No Home Movies
7. 45 Years
8. Son Of Saul
9. Amy (tie)
9. Inherent Vice (tie)
11. Anomalisa
11. It Follows (tie)
13. Phoenix
14. Girlhood (tie)
14. Hard To Be A God (tie)
14. Inside Out (tie)
14. Tangerine (tie)
14. Taxi Tehran (tie)
19. Horse Money (tie)
19. The Look Of Silence(tie)
Cahiers du cinéma's Top 10 Films
1. Mia Madre (Nanni Moretti)
2. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)
4. The Smell of Us (Larry Clark)
5. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
***6. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)***
7. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
8. Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)
9. The Summer of Sangaile (Alante Kavaite)
10. Journey to the Shore (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
trying to collect my thoughts and will edit as december rolls on:
a poem a is a naked person (1973)
losing ground (1981)
fastbreak (1978)
magic mike xxl
the mend
mad max: fury road
sicario
heaven knows what
mistress america
creed
carol
in jackson heights
clouds of sils maria
star wars: the force awakens
chi-raq
l for leisure
the assassin
it follows
results
spotlight
a pigeon sat on a stoop bench contemplating existence
arabian nights
the revenant
tired moonlight
journey to the shore (16?)
the visit
my golden days (16?)
welcome to new york
the gift
stinking heaven
jauja
ex-machina
phoenix
aloha
ricky and the flash
inside out
depalma
junun
love & mercy
fast 7
the big short
the wolfpack
bridge of spies
the end of the tour
entourage
blackhat
movies i didn't like
queen of earth
entertainment
the martian
hateful 8
kumiko the treasure hunter
jurassic world
black mass
John Waters <3
1 HELMUT BERGER, ACTOR (Andreas Horvath) Maybe the best motion picture of the year is also the worst? One-time dreamboat movie star and lover of Visconti, Helmut Berger, now seventy-one and sometimes looking like Marguerite Duras, rants and raves in his ramshackle apartment while the maid dishes the dirt about his sad life. The rules of documentary access are permanently fractured here when our featured attraction takes off all his clothes on camera, masturbates, and actually ejaculates. The Damned, indeed.
2 CINDERELLA (Kenneth Branagh) Yes, you heard me, Cinderella. I fucking love this Disney film.
3 THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson) The most insanely inventive, hilariously funny faux-silent movie of all time, with sound design that should win the Oscar.
4 TOM AT THE FARM (Xavier Dolan) A Genet-like love story between a smart-ass hipster and his dead boyfriend's domineering and dangerously closeted brother who once ripped the mouth off of a man who cruised his sibling. I thought it was sexy.
5 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller) Big-budget tentpole movies can be art, too, and this ultimate nonstop demolition derby is downright insane from the moment it takes off.
6 CAROL (Todd Haynes) Maybe the only way to be transgressive these days is to be shockingly tasteful. This Lana Turner–meets–Audrey Hepburn lipstick-lesbian melodrama is so old-fashioned I felt like I was one year old after watching it. That's almost reborn.
7 THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL (Marielle Heller) A powerful, realistic, and amazingly well-acted comedy about sex between adults and teens that isn't creepy but authentic, ballsy, and totally unpredictable.
8 TANGERINE (Sean Baker) Last Exit to Los Angeles. A beautifully shot underground transgender adventure story that's worth seeing for the scary extras alone.
9 FLY COLT FLY: LEGEND OF THE BAREFOOT BANDIT (Adam Gray and Andrew Gray) A true-crime documentary that moves like the thief in the night the teenage "Barefoot Bandit" really was. Using animation, news footage, and realistic reenactments (you even get to see him wiggle his toes), Fly Colt Fly will make you understand why this plane-stealing kid became a national folk hero.
10 LOVE (Gaspar Noé) The first Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival to show hard-core heterosexual rimming—in 3-D, no less. Thank God for Gaspar Noé.
http://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201510&id=56221
Quote from: jenkins<3 on December 02, 2015, 03:08:25 AM
1 HELMUT BERGER, ACTOR (Andreas Horvath) Maybe the best motion picture of the year is also the worst? One-time dreamboat movie star and lover of Visconti, Helmut Berger, now seventy-one and sometimes looking like Marguerite Duras, rants and raves in his ramshackle apartment while the maid dishes the dirt about his sad life. The rules of documentary access are permanently fractured here when our featured attraction takes off all his clothes on camera, masturbates, and actually ejaculates. The Damned, indeed.
2 CINDERELLA (Kenneth Branagh) Yes, you heard me, Cinderella. I fucking love this Disney film.
3 THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson) The most insanely inventive, hilariously funny faux-silent movie of all time, with sound design that should win the Oscar.
4 TOM AT THE FARM (Xavier Dolan) A Genet-like love story between a smart-ass hipster and his dead boyfriend's domineering and dangerously closeted brother who once ripped the mouth off of a man who cruised his sibling. I thought it was sexy.
7 THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL (Marielle Heller) A powerful, realistic, and amazingly well-acted comedy about sex between adults and teens that isn't creepy but authentic, ballsy, and totally unpredictable.
8 TANGERINE (Sean Baker) Last Exit to Los Angeles. A beautifully shot underground transgender adventure story that's worth seeing for the scary extras alone.
10 LOVE (Gaspar Noé) The first Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival to show hard-core heterosexual rimming—in 3-D, no less. Thank God for Gaspar Noé.
http://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201510&id=56221
wow, haven't seen any of these yet, and now you have me thinking i have a lot of work to do this december. i'm not shy, i'll say it: i love making my list, i think we all secretly love it..
i've seen so very few films this year but i will name
1.phoenix
2.inside out
3.love and mercy
4.ex machina
edit: had forgotten to include ex machina.
as the best i've seen.
i've yet to see blackhat, and carol looks beautiful. psyched about star wars and hateful 8.
no order
Bitter Lake - Adam Curtis
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Catch Me Daddy - Daniel Wolfe
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Cobain: Montage of Heck - Brett Morgan
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Ex Machina - Alex Garland
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Heaven Knows What - Bennie Safdie, Josh Safdie
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Inherent Vice - P. T. Anderson - though was underwhelmed. Perhaps because The Master was such a big deal to me and i'd followed this one since 09, i've never done that with any of his other films before.
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The Lobster - Yorgos Lanthimos
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Mad Max Fury Road - George Miller - though wasn't nearly as keen as the rest of the forum, or, indeed, the world
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Tangerine - Sean Baker
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Junun - P. T. Anderson
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no regrets
Amy
Beasts of No Nation
Entertainment
Going Clear
Hot Girls Wanted
Louis CK: Live at the Comedy Store
Prophet's Prey
Thought Crimes
The Wolfpack
diz wuz bad
Chappie
Jurassic World
Love
Straight Outta Compton
not seen
lots of things
oddest things to exist
Soaked in Bleach
tv
Fargo
Hannibal
Mr Robot
Nathan for You
Peep Show
People Just Do Nothing
Silicon Valley
W/ Bob and David
haha
True Detective
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1. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) It's very rare for me to see a film where I know immediately, "this is one of my favorite films of all time." It's not an intellectual exercise, it's a purely chemical thing that happens when a film takes over, lifts me out of my chair and slaps a stupid grin on my face from beginning to end. Mad Max: Fury Road is a cinematic miracle: a sequel/reboot of a 30 year old dormant action franchise from a 70-year old filmmaker who had spent the previous decades making children's movies, that puts most modern blockbusters to shame. It's proof that we don't have to accept shitty weightless CGI-action films and that great filmmakers can do better. Writer/director George Miller spent 15 years developing the film and it shows in every detail of this epic, which is as visually stunning as it is emotionally involving. It's the rare film that makes a case for film itself because it wouldn't be possible in any other medium, not as a TV show, a play or a book. It'll be a shame if Miller never gets to make another Mad Max film. But I'm forever grateful that he got to make this one.
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2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams) A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away we all loved Star Wars. Then came the Special Editions and the prequels and a decade of dormancy. Then the man who had both created and destroyed the greatest cinematic universe in film history sold it off to the biggest corporation in the world and stepped aside. And they hired J.J. Abrams, a man known more for franchise management than having a distinctive vision of his own, to resurrect the franchise and rushed to meet a release date. It shouldn't have worked. And yet, here we are. The Force Awakens might be fan fiction but it's great fan fiction – as it turns out, the Star Wars movie J.J. Abrams wanted to see is almost the same as the one I wanted to see too – perfectly encapsulating not the universe we'd seen onscreen before but the one we dreamed of in our heads with an expanded universe, new characters and more adventures for Luke and company. I have some minor issues with it and could nitpick the joy out of it (and I'm sure the internet will) but after two viewings I'm still marveling at how much Abrams and his team got right. This is the Star Wars you've been looking for.
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3. Inside Out (Pete Docter) After a disappointing run of films that had some questioning whether Pixar would ever make another original film as good as Up or Wall·E again, the studio came roaring back this year with Inside Out, one of their finest films to date. While it may not be in my personal Top 5 for the studio, it's arguably their most important film because of its deceptively simple message: being sad is okay and it's a part of life. It's hard to imagine any other studio making a film with that takeaway. I took my 4 year old niece to see a handful of films this year and while Big Hero 6 and Minions and Peanuts were all good, only Inside Out felt important. The themes may go over her head now but for her and the other kids who grow up watching it, they'll have a road map for dealing with their feelings, especially when they turn 12 or 13. How many films can you say that about?
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4. The Martian (Ridley Scott) While not as ambitious as films like Gravity or Interstellar, The Martian may have more modest ambitions but soars past them. Ridley Scott's sci-fi adventure is about as good as mainstream filmmaking gets (without transcending to that next-level status of classics like Alien or Blade Runner). Entertaining from beginning to end, featuring a cast of great actors that you want to keep watching, this is the kind of studio film that makes it look so easy, which leads some to mistakenly think that it actually is. In a few years it will be playing around the clock on TNT with The Shawshank Redemption.
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5. Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro) For the longest time I didn't quite get Guillermo del Toro, I saw his films and admired them but never loved them, though improbably that all changed with Pacific Rim, which despite its silliness was dialed directly into my pleasure centers. He continues his hot streak with Crimson Peak, a gothic romance dressed up as a Hammer Films haunted house movie, which I loved every gorgeous frame of. Like the preceding 4 films on my Top 10, an example of the best of what studio filmmaking can be in the hands of the right filmmaker.
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6. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) I love horror films but the great ones only come around every so often and when they do, they usually blindside you. It Follows mixes the have-sex-and-die ethos from 80s slasher films with the mood of paranoia from John Carpenter films like The Thing. The premise is brilliantly simple: a teen has sex with her boyfriend only to find out afterwards that he has passed something onto her, it could look like anyone and it won't stop until it kills her or she passes it on. If you prefer your scary movies high on atmosphere and low on gore, this is your new favorite movie.
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7. Cobain: Montage Of Heck (Brett Morgen) While I admit I'm the right age to be perfectly primed for Nirvana nostalgia – has it really been 22 years since Kurt killed himself? – this doc wisely avoids the rise-and-fall arc of so many Behind The Music episodes. Featuring unreleased home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, journals and animated segments narrated by Cobain (which, quite frankly are possibly more interesting if they're fiction), Cobain: Montage Of Heck brilliantly edits together these left behind scraps to make a portrait that looks nearly complete.
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8. Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle) None of this happened but it's all true. Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle take what could've been a very boring biopic and transform it into an imagined and electric three acts of real-time drama. The film can't quite sustain Act One's momentum and there are some emotional notes near the end that don't quite land like I wanted them to, but with Sorkin's ratatat dialogue and actors relishing the opportunity to deliver it, Steve Jobs is almost as good as you want it to be.
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9. Carol (Todd Haynes) Emotionally distant but visually ravishing, Carol is the In The Mood For Love of 1950′s lesbian romances. Arguably the most beautifully shot film of 2015, the film features two knockout performances from Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara and sumptuous period detail from top to bottom, you'll want to live in this world even if you wouldn't want to live in it. Todd Haynes has always been a director whose films I admire more than love but I suspect this one will age well.
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10. Creed (Ryan Coogler) Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler makes the jump to the big leagues with the best Sundance-to-studio transition since Christopher Nolan. Not only is Creed a worthy entry in the Rocky canon, it's arguably the best film in the series and proof that a familiar story – the film pretty much follows the first Rocky beat for beat – isn't necessarily an impediment to a great film as long as you have a unique point of view.
11. While We're Young (Noah Baumbach), 12. Mistress America (Noah Baumbach), 13. Ex Machina (Alex Garland), 14. Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn), 15. The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino), 16. Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman), 17. Brooklyn (John Crowley), 18. Amy (Asif Kapadia), 19. The Avengers: Age Of Ultron (Joss Whedon), 20. Spotlight (Thomas McCarthy).
Runners-Up: Wild Tales (Damian Szifron), Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie), Trainwreck (Judd Apatow), Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve), Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs), Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad), Sicario (Denis Villeneuve), Bridge Of Spies (Steven Spielberg), Listen To Me Marlon (Stevan Riley).
Is no one going to comment on jenkin's lauding of Hot Pursuit?
I missed a lot of stuff, but from what I managed to catch:
1 Phoenix
2 Straight Outta Compton
3 Son of Saul
4 Mad Max
5 Mommy
6 Mistress America
7 Jobs
8 Spotlight
9 The Stanford Experiment/ End of the Tour
10 Hateful Eight
Shoutouts to Heaven Can't Wait, Cobain, and Anomalisa
most pleasant memory of 2015 was seeing the Wild Bunch on 35mm.
zero people have confirmed seeing Hot Pursuit. it's a current dream of mine to double Hot Pursuit and 2 Guns.
live the dream, bro. live it.
well it's like a future dream of mine.
Would anyone like to make an updated 2015 list? Trying to catch up and could use some recommendations.
here are my fav movies of 15 that did not get enough love:
Quote from: JG on December 01, 2015, 01:20:13 PM
a poem a is a naked person (1973)
the look of silence
the mend
sicario
heaven knows what
chi-raq
l for leisure
arabian nights
tired moonlight
the visit
welcome to new york
the gift
jauja
aloha
ricky and the flash
Sicario got enough love and jb saw it. i still need to se Aloha and Ricky and the Flash.
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Room
3. The Lobster
4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
5. White God
6. The Visit
7. Ex Machina
8. The Revenant
9. The Hateful Eight
10. It Follows